Fun fact: we tried a different way of scripting and voicing the video of the Zenfone 3 Zoom preview you’re about to watch. We’re not 100% fully satisfied with the video, but sometimes you just have to put out what you’ve got: us discussing the potential quality of the new cameraphone from Asus in a bit awkwardly scripted way. But hopefully that doesn’t make you think less of the phone. On the contrary, the ZenFone 3 Zoom looks to be one of the best cameras in a phone this year, if the Taiwanese company could harness its full potential. Check out our preview of the prototype embedded above to learn more about what we think about it (we won’t type it out below), or read up on all of the specs of the phone below!

Brand

Device

Launch Date

Launch Price (SRP)

Lowest Price

Processor

Display

Version (At Launch)

Skin

Rear Camera

Front Camera

RAM / ROM / MicroSD

Battery

Telephony

Extra Connectivity

USB OTG / SD Install

Miscellaneous

Updates

Links

Buy Online

UI Smoothness

Antutu Score

Work Battery

Asus

Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom ZE553KL

2017-01-04 (Announced)

25000 (PHP Est.) 14990 (NTD)

2.0Ghz Octa-Core Snapdragon 625

5.5" 1920x1080 AMOLED Gorilla Glass 5

6.0 Android Marshmallow

Zen UI

12MP 1x Zoom Full Pixel PDAF OIS Dual LED Flash + 12MP 2.3x Zoom

13MP

4GB / 64GB / Yes

5000 mAh Non-Removable

Dual SIM LTE

Yes / ???

Metal body, fingerprint scanner

7.0 Android Nougat Announced

Coincidentally, we’ve been hearing reports that the ZenFone 3 Zoom has finally been launched in Taiwan as of today. It has been selling for NT$14,990 – of which translates to roughly PHP 25,000 or US$500. We’d love to get a hold of a retail version to finally be able to scrutinize the quality of the finished product’s cameras and it’s updated software, but at least we know its already out in the wild.